""It's like finding a van Gogh in your grandmother's attic," Utah state archaeologist Kevin Jones said.
Earliest traces of Fremont life show up three centuries before the birth of Christ, but they disappeared around A.D. 1250. This unlooted canyon - turned over by a rancher who kept it secret for more than half a century - could have been one of their final strongholds.
Until recently, Range Creek was all but unknown. An expedition from Harvard's Peabody Museum made a stop in 1929, but visited only a few sites. In recent summers, archaeologists and graduate students have quietly conducted a labor-intensive survey - keeping the area's full significance under wraps until news reports surfaced about the land transfer in June."
Duhh...DUMBASS, open up your car or computer or something you own. If it's not from Malaysia, Mexico, Ireland, Taiwan or China, it's still possibly from Japan. You cell could be. You favorite movies, tho not filmed in Japan, could be OWNED by Sony, not necesarily because Japan is evil, but because that almighty dollar will make just about anyone "sell out". Never mind the continuity of payroll, for a moment. Your lame-assed comment probably could incite many nations to mull "why doesn't it happen to America, for once...". People are NOT as globally sympathetic to us as the media might in orchestrated fasion expect us to believe.
Go pick up a copy of the book "Japan: A Reinterpretation" and you might learn that Japan, after WWII, became a US military outpost, given a mythical "tradition" (for the US govt to have domestic psy-ops on US unions, work relations, and domestic productivity/output) and a forced democracy in the pawn game against then-Soviet Russia. Partly it was to prevent Japan from becoming a type of "Switzerland in Asia", to keep Japan from being neutral, neither friend nor foe of the US or of Soviet Russia. What wasn't counted on was the Japanese continuing the war by economic means rather than military. Guess who sold to whom much of Los Angeles' prime real estate, many buildings of us DC area, and lots of Hawaii, for a BUCK?
We need to introspect, people.
If the author is correct, then I think Japan after the mid 1800 became corrupt(ed) because of western and European and church colonialization, and even MORE corrupt after the US reinstalled the party it nearly decapitated "winning" the war.
There's a LOT of shit we 'merikuns just DON'T effing learn in school because "history is (re)written by the victors" still reigns.
Then, go and read "Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan" and you will learn even MORE, the dark, seemy, wasteful side of Japan, concreting over rivers, building roads and more just to keep alive a series of government-back cement conglomerates.
Yep, while they after the war got a (forced) constitution, and "we" got a peace treaty, "we" got a military arms puppet, the 6th-most expensive militarily armed nation (circa 1995), and WWII, I dare posit, might NOT have included the Japanese and parts of Asia had not their pride been stomped on by incursion-prone Friars, and whatnots.
Pan is bread in Japanese, and is Portuguese in origin. Lots of words introduced to Japan came from the Dutch, Portuguese and many others who, if they had not incited student exchange, might not have cause Japanese of the late 1800's to see American mills, ships, cannons, economic power and more which made some of the politically astute and militarily-minded begin to fear the US. I sometimes wonder if PH was partly to do with "saving face" for the Commodore's 1800's visit which followed up the "treaty/trade" envoys.
Ostensibly or purportedly "good" things nations do in one year come back to haunt the shit out of them later.
What will the US do if Asia somehow we, the US, significantly PISS OFF most of Asia to the point they decide to exclusively patrol all west of Hawaii, and only "let" in the US as a "tech assist"? What if narrower sea lanes (economical for merchants) are set up, but military sono and weapons test areas (formerly "international waters" are blocked off for "Region Members Only Testing"? What if Asian shipbuilders' governments drop the axes and gauntlets aside and speedily build up multinationally-crewed ships, develop non-us sensors and weapons, and put at risk not the US, but the US weapons industry.
All it would take to make this viable is if some natural event knocked out our satellites. Then, we'd see how long our asses last unmolested without the big eyes, the guages and the electronics jamming control systems.
It's easy to talk tough when nobody can even slap or spit back on the same playing rules.
We better hope there aren't anymore lost ummm, "temporarilly misplaced" nukes the government and military are not telling us about, for if anyone finds and makes even minimally effective use of it, the political "fallout" will have severe repurcussions.
If they don't defuse, or diffuse the matter, for that matter, then lots of us will be singing "Got Georgia on my mind..." And, just last week I finally, after 3 or so years, got another quarter with the state of Georgia. I slapped it to my forehead and said, "Got Georgia on my mind" to the amusement of a number of people.
Now, by coincidence, we HAVE got "Georgia on our mind"...
metaphoric speak, but if it happened to ms, there'd be no love lost, by me or most of the developing or legally-hamstrung world needing to get from under the ms yoke of suppression, oppression and intellectual REgression. Seems to me ms needs to undergo some SERIOUS "regression" therapy... Too bad ms and all it's backups are not sitting on some sliver of Washington state coastline due for collapse into the continental shelf-- or slope, even. Actually, there is an historical but overdue Tsunami out there... Maybe Duke will get that shock and rolling, but only flood the ms campus, nothing else. Get rollin', Duke.
Seriously, though...
Moreover, think TWICE about nuking India. It's not India's fault. India, like many other developing or crowded nations has to eat, too. If we tech nations raise the tide and benefit by rising with it, so MUST others, lest they drown in the tide, their boats swamped. To assert that they are not deserving of parallel rise with us is to assert they are worthless, undeserving of progress, not equals as humans, nor deserving of benefitting from their being exploited by tech and power nations.
Does India have trillions or even hundreds of billions of rupees ANYTHING worth gate's & ms' ill-gotten money? No.
Take a look at who's selling out the country and the workforce, if you see it as 'selling out'. It's either the (various rich nations) ultra rich, their lobbyists, their shill, bought-and-paid for politicians, and/or dumb consumers who are not very thoughtful of which domestic companies which they purchase from.
The ultimate, and inevitable solution to this vexing problem is multi-part:
--- get lobbyists out of politics
--- nuke the dirtiest of the dirty politicians
--- remove from wealth any ultra-nationalist super rich and let the new youth run their own futures
--- Make F/LOSS more pervasive and proprietary software more deprecated, but charging for service and customization is ok
--- Make the government/s live within its/their means
-- Make governments print special cash to cover the pay and retirement planes of public employees, thereby removing that onus from non-government employees
--- Defang the "materialism monster" such that it's pointless to become "ultra rich", since the rich SHOULD be at the mercy of consumers, not the other way around. (Even I need to de-consumerize to an extent...)
--- Place global human rights, dignity, esteem, nourishment, and face above corporate or national agenda
--- Shrink the chasm between the haves and have nots
--- LOTS of other ideas out there???
Reality is, "outsourcing" has been around for QUITE a long time. The sick/depressing part of it is the relatively recent uptick to save a buck. Displaced workers, as long as they have debts and need food need money, or they'll die, become criminals, or leech (by necessity) "the system".
...microsoft (lower-casing-deprecation intentional/perpetual in my writings).
-============== Go ahead, Duke, Nuke'em. NUKE'EM TWICE.
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(Think Gene Hackman in 'Crimson Tide' when his character gave his political cold-war stance toward then-Soviet Russia: "Aye, Aye, Sir! Drop the Nukes. Drop those FU*#KERS. Drop'em TWICE. Happening to microsoft, we'd be gifted with "Micro-Flotsam Tide".)
"Frankly, I still think the proper thing to do is to have a large statutory penalty, say $10,000/spam, that anyone can collect in small-claims court."
If we raise the penalty to $10,000,000 per incident, would that be "statutory rape"? Or ineffective, inefficient process of law?
Seriously, whatever is going on with the "spam flag"? Spamming would be less effective if people could filter it out, but then the spammers would get paid less, too, if their payload is universally ditched on detection.
Even with Sender ID, I think eventually "sophisticated" spammers would just adapt like cockroaches, toad, sharks, alligators, and non-hardening feces and just learn to forge or hijack valid email. Maybe they would set up their own "Man in the middle" e-mail servers to strip spam flags from or make "legit" the payload they can intercept.
Pretty soon, spammers tapping into cables or bribing their way into datacenters might be a problem.
Maybe keying/encrypting traffic is the likely best way to deal with this, but, "Where there's a way, there's a will." as a Marine SSGT I once reported to would tell us for motivation.
1. What do we do when the spammers raise the stakes (or, raze the steaks) and forge the spam even better? Next, we could have the cops so busy, they'll either ruthlessly and incorrectly charge the innocent, or they'll just walk away from bad press.
2. Why not pay someone to spam the hell out of the agencies charged with reducing spam? (I am assuming that one agency of the government allows it to spur the lazier agencies into action, hehehe.) If spammed to hell, I am sure the FBI would go all-out. And, they might actually enjoy inter-agency cooperation... The police would never again say, "You're out of your jurisdiction..."...
But, it most likely would NOT be GNU/GPL/LGPL or even msGPL.
It is very unlikely that microshaft/microsoft (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' name intentional/perpetual) would EVER be that grand or giving. They would clench-fistedly pound the life from anyone who exposed ms' code as if it were GPL/et al. I would not be surprised if a veritable LOAD of GNU/BSD/LGPL/ and similar code pervades ms (albeit very tidy in appearance at points, but still dodgy/sketchy in others) warez.
Fully exposed, I surmise ms will be a naked wolf. A RICH, naked wolf, but at least defanged.
It's time to threaten or carry out attempts to legally and technologically defang, neuter, spay, declaw, and shave/fleece ms until it is no more a threat than a caged monkey coming down from PCP binge.
Speaking of Revere, this makes me lament that the world IS so economically intertwined at the computer level.
It would be NICE to see some strong, firey international backlash against microsoft, AND against any ms shills in congress who let ms cozily sail by on the USB "security enhancements".
If microsoft (lower-casing/deprecation intentional/perpetual) continues on this track, it will be tantamount to giving the US an upper hand on manufacturing and global security. It would be shameful if the overseas contract manufacturers knuckled under and caused the creation of umpteen billions of ms-only devices to the point that even THEIR own governments are further threatened by the very EXISTENCE of ms.
If someone put a gun to my head and said, "NAME us a big, juicy, media-worthy target in 5 seconds or we'll shoot that lady, that baby, and your leg...", well, there's only ONE company I'd name. And, I'd say, "Don't forget to get their bank account and backup tapes, too."
I wouldn't pull the PHYSICAL trigger, I'd just say make sure that sow is put out of its misery so the rest of us don't get mad-american-tech-cow disease.
The next global threat is not terrorists: it's:
-- an uncontrolled ms or ms-copy-cat
-- dangerous, reckless, bought-off, corrupt politicians, their lobbyists, all or most of whom who don't have any vision more than to grab MORE dollars and MORE power.
Then this is more reason why microsoft should perish.
For them to do even ATTEMPT to do this should incite international furor and uproar. I am shocked that to this DAY so many companies continue to have cozy little relationships with microsoft (lower-casing/deprecation intentional/perpetual with me, at least)-- all in the name of money. Apps cost, but so does support. Charge more for support and services, and less or zero for apps. THEN your real fans will stand out and support you, rather than support you out of "hostagery".
Yet, it is increasingly heartening to see SOOO many nations, militaries, governments, businesses and individuals switching to Linux and F/LOSS. This obviously is the signal that microsoft's days are or SHOULD be numbered. (Let's not see WWIII precipitated because a USN or UK combat system based on windoze decides a looming threat became real, launches an overriding first strike, and blows some ship out of the water or plane out of the sky...It's bade ENOUGH that the USN and UK navies gave electrical subsystems control to windoze, and now, for the past few years windoze has been encroaching and infecting systems. Maybe when a ship FAILS to survive because windoze is a let down (and how many DOD projects have NOT been letdowns?) somebody will in due haste revisit F/LOSS (but locked down/encrypted) must become part of or return to command and control systems where ADA and older languages might be too old.)
If a PERSON were doing this kind of thing being done my microsoft, such a person might be called an 'asshole'. Well, companies are RUN by persons, and companies are accorded the status of person, so what does that make microsoft and the specific leaders of it or the key officers and some employees who don't quit that wretch of a company?
It would be a travesty if businesses, governments and individuals which/who just now embracing Linux for freedom, curiosity, or financial reasons (all of these reasons are rightfully obtainable) suddenly find that microsoft and its henchmen/women decree NOONE has the right to escape the microsoft tax and the microsoft ecosystem. With the cash of and increasing lobbying by microsoft, citizen's votes will be further meaningless. Hell, even San Francisco City Library doesn't appear to have free printer access so I was then not able to use my Linux laptop to print something I needed to give a state office. The library employee on the 4th floor told me I had to get a card, reserve a machine, and use microsoft word. I flatly told her I'll use OpenOffice.org, Star Office or Lotus WordPro from my laptop and send it to the printer, or worse, use windoze and right-click the file and print it without so much as seeing ms' word open up...) So much for taxpayer dollars going to proprietary solutions. Other libraries, I know, negligently or haplessly foist the same perils upon their citizens, too.
This is tantamount to declaring WAR, whether upon governments or upon people. What are we supposed to do? Keep legacy windoze boxes lying around, and then be forced to continue supporting gates and his bad business model?
Your business model is FLAWED, gates. Wake up and realize this and change your attitude, your intransigent, stalward, greed-based hegemony and be harmonious with the emerging ecosystem changes. If your company CAN NOT cope, then, as with so many other businesses, then it must DIE.
To paraphrase what someone posted here a day or two ago: Linux is the scratch response to an itch. Obviously, gates and the henchmen/henchwomen, you just don't get it: Your business model is FLAWED, and the suffering, poor, and hungry who DESERVE to ride the train of technology don't need your ficition, your encumberances, and your bad approach to dealing with the fact that you're a sore player. You hoodwinked IBM, you keelhauled non-conforming moms and pops, you practically EXTORTED manufacturers to accept ONLY your o/s, and untold BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars have been SPENT on your proprietary warez, and now, to paraphrase what we Nav
Duh... Do you fathom just how low a 747 would have to go to effectively "crop dust" a city?
They'd either crash a la 9/11, or their special fragrances would likely only kill birds, and send THEM crashing into buildings.
(Why just yesterday while eating my Whopper, a bird crashed about 10 feet above me into the window. There was a circular spider web, like a chip but not pronounced. I only saw a bird flying away, but it didn't crash to the ground.)
Wind patterns, humidity, condensation, temperature, brightness and other factors would make pointless this mode of work. Even a news helo would only be effective for a bit until the police helos and DHLS teams arrived to shoot it down.
No, amateur rockets, r/c planes, balloons (heheh, any R/C hot air balloons???) won't be too useful either.
OK, the 747 bit must have been just a bad gag. He/she/it got me...
But, if it is real, then such a plane should be brought down in the name of the public. Or, it should be harpooned with a tracker so we can see just where the hell it goes. Even easier/better, let's hire another nation's satellites to track the next one, if they can respond. If it's leaving a detectable, non-fuel/non-effluent trail, then maybe shoot it down without warning.
Isn't this a case for MORE stateless, diskless machines?
Is it safe to suggest that each workgroup gets a beefy workgroup server, and each employee, say up to 10 per server, get diskless stations? Each company could work out the numbers based on whether a stand-alone Linoxuper, ahem, developer, or CAD specialist gets a dedicated machine, or an accounting, data entry person hangs off the group server.
Then employees with diskless stations could just power off like the old Wyse terminals days. A workgroup server could be supplemented by a root-top or parking lot solar grid, reducing dependency on the local grid.
Well, maybe we'll FINALLY see IBM/Lotus ship some sendable code to Novell? Imagine IBM selling off or dual-licensing some "SmartOpenSuite" and getting IBM AND Novell a slew more customers.
I have things in SmartSuite that, thanks to Word Pro, 1-2-3 and ESPECIALLY Lotus Approach, I simply, utterly, and infuriatingly CAN NOT do in Star Office, nor in OpenOffice.org. Certainly not nearly as easily as I, a non-developer, can do in SmartSuite.
If any of you developers have not seen Lotus Approach, please hook up with your DB friends and help figure a way for IBM to get past the legal morass that seems to be in the way of us having a Dual-License/F/LOSS version of SmartSuite. IBM should do for SmartSuite what OpenOffice is to Sun.
This also could pit IBM in stark constrast to Sun, in light of Sun's arrangements with microscroft (lower-casing/deprecation of mshaft's name intentional/perpetual in my writings...). That is, assuming there are non key, well-placed abettors of microshoft emplaced in IBM (something I think about and fear to be true...)
Thanks in advance, IBM/Lotus. Let the Olympian Gold Code and Bugfests of SmartSuite begin!
I don't care if "suits" that drive the influx of and pay for the installation of Linux F/LOSS into infrastructures as long as they fundamentally or nearly 100% respect GNU, GPL, F/LOSS, copyleft, etc.
It behooves them to encourage more people to "scratch an itch" by producing more Linux code.
Eventually, despite the mainstream corps' attempts to sew up or hijack virutally all conceivable "IP" by calling new or innovative spins "mere extensions" of their protected IP, the new adoptees will have to weigh in on Congress (and try to get some PROGress) to modify patent law. It behooves them because they will reduce the cost of doing business for themselves, and collectively, that could be a LOT of votes cast on dumping some fat-ass-cat/bought-off politician and casting doubt on their lobbyists.
Unfortunately, as companies save money by using F/LOSS, they'll probably need fewer engineers, and will be in a position to pay them less, since OSS community developers will probably crank out ever more amounts of code either for passion or for subconscious and over revenge motives to punish a government and tax system that is not keeping up with the fact that technological improvements displace workers, and displaced workers STILL have bills to pay, and bills being paid require MONEY, and money that cannot be LEGALLY obtained will result in theft or counterfieting of cash, or absolute walkaway or abandoment of debts.
Technology is going to UNDO America if lazy-assed corp tycoons and derelict politicians don't reassess the eventual demise or destructiveness of unfettered materialism.
Capitalism requires materialism and exchange of cash. Capitalism requires well-respected, cost-of-living/living-wage paid workers. Workers need cash and personal incentive to part with money, though for the time being, all too many of us too freely part with cash without know we are secure to do so.
The ONLY way to effect change from OUR level is to --en masse-- cancel cable, buy less gas, use the cells less or switch to MetroPCS and incentivize MPCS to spread to other markets, and if we eat more at home, and stop consuming what we don't need at our respective income levels, then ONLY those with disposable cash will consume excessively. Once they're incapable of supporting a run-amok tax-based system with far too many employees and pensions that are not being met adequately, the government and those among the rich who RUN the government/s WILL have to respond. They won't like it either way, but they'll HAVE to respond.
One way the government can start raking in cold, hard cash is to federalize the mortagage industry and skim its profits. There are BILLIONS of dollars there, and since the government already has the plat, lot and other info, all they need to do is hire or federalize certain experts who have competencies the government truly lacks and which the government cannot easily replicate.
Before massive computerization, it MADE sense for the counties and states to turn over the exchange of homes to mortgage pros. But, automobiles can be freely exchanged, and their registration and transfer and special taxation all are government-controlled. Yet, the individual is free to relatively cheaply (due to fewer hands and mouths in on the process) transfer or acquire a vehicle.
The government needs to start competing or acquiring mortgage officers and structures and keeping more of the money it's already forcing homeowners to pay. The new and fundamental difference is that the government --if it can avoid being corrupte yet again/more-- can keep more of this money in the various states, fix state health care, fix public service (police, teachers, firefighters, etc) pay and pension maladies, and reduce the cost of public transportation to the point it is less attractive to use cars except in the trickiest of commute road patterns.
David Syes
Quickly Becoming Public Enemy Number One by Power of the Pen or Keyboard
For a LONG time I have been wanting this question answered, unequivocably:
After he and his wife donate funds for construction or computers and software, do they CARE or look the other way if LINUX is put on those boxes or in those buildings?
Is the question moot maybe because they carefully screen, select and hone those environments to make absolutely damned sure that there is next to NO chance of Linux or F/LOSS getting in?
What I find to be a problem is file locking on excel sheets. F'ing excel, whenever it encounters an open file in use by another user, it also prevents ie or the file explorer from spritely or expeditiously drilling into the network or local files. This is TRULY annoying
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This is to question all the people with a "boner" for "uptime".
Is it REALLY necessary to care about client machine UPtime? It costs energy to keep a machine running. Maybe it's ok to leave your HOME machine up, if it's a new one with better efficiency then the older monsters of the 90's. But work machines, by the dozens or the hundreds, being left on just wast lots of energy, even if there is available energy on your grid. That energy is generated and fuel is consumed to present it.
That being said, all those windoze boxes with various bots, spyware, and weather bars could be "calling back home", can't they? I just yank my ethernet at home, and at work I leave my windoze box on, but also yank the ethernet. I do the same for my quasi-permitted Linux box. I SHOULD turn them off, but most of the other machines DO get turned off at the end of the day and over the weekend.
I mostly turn my machines off if I won't around for a couple hours, but sometimes, at home, I leave my laptop going if I am watching a movie on the DVD.
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In Yahoo!, there is an article about ancient ruins/homes in Utah before the time of Christ.
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The longer we live, the more we uncover...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid
""It's like finding a van Gogh in your grandmother's attic," Utah state archaeologist Kevin Jones said.
Earliest traces of Fremont life show up three centuries before the birth of Christ, but they disappeared around A.D. 1250. This unlooted canyon - turned over by a rancher who kept it secret for more than half a century - could have been one of their final strongholds.
Until recently, Range Creek was all but unknown. An expedition from Harvard's Peabody Museum made a stop in 1929, but visited only a few sites. In recent summers, archaeologists and graduate students have quietly conducted a labor-intensive survey - keeping the area's full significance under wraps until news reports surfaced about the land transfer in June."
See this URL for other information:
http://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/fremont
Is it protected by GPL, GNU, CopyLeft, creative commons?
Will it withstand subversion attempts by microsoft (lowercasing/deprecation of ms intentional/perpetual), sco, or furthermore?
Duhh...DUMBASS, open up your car or computer or something you own. If it's not from Malaysia, Mexico, Ireland, Taiwan or China, it's still possibly from Japan. You cell could be. You favorite movies, tho not filmed in Japan, could be OWNED by Sony, not necesarily because Japan is evil, but because that almighty dollar will make just about anyone "sell out". Never mind the continuity of payroll, for a moment. Your lame-assed comment probably could incite many nations to mull "why doesn't it happen to America, for once...". People are NOT as globally sympathetic to us as the media might in orchestrated fasion expect us to believe.
Go pick up a copy of the book "Japan: A Reinterpretation" and you might learn that Japan, after WWII, became a US military outpost, given a mythical "tradition" (for the US govt to have domestic psy-ops on US unions, work relations, and domestic productivity/output) and a forced democracy in the pawn game against then-Soviet Russia. Partly it was to prevent Japan from becoming a type of "Switzerland in Asia", to keep Japan from being neutral, neither friend nor foe of the US or of Soviet Russia. What wasn't counted on was the Japanese continuing the war by economic means rather than military. Guess who sold to whom much of Los Angeles' prime real estate, many buildings of us DC area, and lots of Hawaii, for a BUCK?
We need to introspect, people.
If the author is correct, then I think Japan after the mid 1800 became corrupt(ed) because of western and European and church colonialization, and even MORE corrupt after the US reinstalled the party it nearly decapitated "winning" the war.
There's a LOT of shit we 'merikuns just DON'T effing learn in school because "history is (re)written by the victors" still reigns.
Then, go and read "Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan" and you will learn even MORE, the dark, seemy, wasteful side of Japan, concreting over rivers, building roads and more just to keep alive a series of government-back cement conglomerates.
Yep, while they after the war got a (forced) constitution, and "we" got a peace treaty, "we" got a military arms puppet, the 6th-most expensive militarily armed nation (circa 1995), and WWII, I dare posit, might NOT have included the Japanese and parts of Asia had not their pride been stomped on by incursion-prone Friars, and whatnots.
Pan is bread in Japanese, and is Portuguese in origin. Lots of words introduced to Japan came from the Dutch, Portuguese and many others who, if they had not incited student exchange, might not have cause Japanese of the late 1800's to see American mills, ships, cannons, economic power and more which made some of the politically astute and militarily-minded begin to fear the US. I sometimes wonder if PH was partly to do with "saving face" for the Commodore's 1800's visit which followed up the "treaty/trade" envoys.
Ostensibly or purportedly "good" things nations do in one year come back to haunt the shit out of them later.
What will the US do if Asia somehow we, the US, significantly PISS OFF most of Asia to the point they decide to exclusively patrol all west of Hawaii, and only "let" in the US as a "tech assist"? What if narrower sea lanes (economical for merchants) are set up, but military sono and weapons test areas (formerly "international waters" are blocked off for "Region Members Only Testing"? What if Asian shipbuilders' governments drop the axes and gauntlets aside and speedily build up multinationally-crewed ships, develop non-us sensors and weapons, and put at risk not the US, but the US weapons industry.
All it would take to make this viable is if some natural event knocked out our satellites. Then, we'd see how long our asses last unmolested without the big eyes, the guages and the electronics jamming control systems.
It's easy to talk tough when nobody can even slap or spit back on the same playing rules.
We better hope there aren't anymore lost ummm, "temporarilly misplaced" nukes the government and military are not telling us about, for if anyone finds and makes even minimally effective use of it, the political "fallout" will have severe repurcussions.
David Syes
...strike" to that half life of 24,1000 years?
If they don't defuse, or diffuse the matter, for that matter, then lots of us will be singing "Got Georgia on my mind..." And, just last week I finally, after 3 or so years, got another quarter with the state of Georgia. I slapped it to my forehead and said, "Got Georgia on my mind" to the amusement of a number of people.
Now, by coincidence, we HAVE got "Georgia on our mind"...
seys divad
David Syes
The above inciting bit was a bit of ...
metaphoric speak, but if it happened to ms, there'd be no love lost, by me or most of the developing or legally-hamstrung world needing to get from under the ms yoke of suppression, oppression and intellectual REgression. Seems to me ms needs to undergo some SERIOUS "regression" therapy... Too bad ms and all it's backups are not sitting on some sliver of Washington state coastline due for collapse into the continental shelf-- or slope, even. Actually, there is an historical but overdue Tsunami out there... Maybe Duke will get that shock and rolling, but only flood the ms campus, nothing else. Get rollin', Duke.
Seriously, though...
Moreover, think TWICE about nuking India. It's not India's fault. India, like many other developing or crowded nations has to eat, too. If we tech nations raise the tide and benefit by rising with it, so MUST others, lest they drown in the tide, their boats swamped. To assert that they are not deserving of parallel rise with us is to assert they are worthless, undeserving of progress, not equals as humans, nor deserving of benefitting from their being exploited by tech and power nations.
Does India have trillions or even hundreds of billions of rupees ANYTHING worth gate's & ms' ill-gotten money? No.
Take a look at who's selling out the country and the workforce, if you see it as 'selling out'. It's either the (various rich nations) ultra rich, their lobbyists, their shill, bought-and-paid for politicians, and/or dumb consumers who are not very thoughtful of which domestic companies which they purchase from.
The ultimate, and inevitable solution to this vexing problem is multi-part:
--- get lobbyists out of politics
--- nuke the dirtiest of the dirty politicians
--- remove from wealth any ultra-nationalist super rich and let the new youth run their own futures
--- Make F/LOSS more pervasive and proprietary software more deprecated, but charging for service and customization is ok
--- Make the government/s live within its/their means
-- Make governments print special cash to cover the pay and retirement planes of public employees, thereby removing that onus from non-government employees
--- Defang the "materialism monster" such that it's pointless to become "ultra rich", since the rich SHOULD be at the mercy of consumers, not the other way around. (Even I need to de-consumerize to an extent...)
--- Place global human rights, dignity, esteem, nourishment, and face above corporate or national agenda
--- Shrink the chasm between the haves and have nots
--- LOTS of other ideas out there???
Reality is, "outsourcing" has been around for QUITE a long time. The sick/depressing part of it is the relatively recent uptick to save a buck. Displaced workers, as long as they have debts and need food need money, or they'll die, become criminals, or leech (by necessity) "the system".
David Syes
...microsoft (lower-casing-deprecation intentional/perpetual in my writings).
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Go ahead, Duke, Nuke'em. NUKE'EM TWICE.
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(Think Gene Hackman in 'Crimson Tide' when his character gave his political cold-war stance toward then-Soviet Russia: "Aye, Aye, Sir! Drop the Nukes. Drop those FU*#KERS. Drop'em TWICE. Happening to microsoft, we'd be gifted with "Micro-Flotsam Tide".)
David Syes
David Syes
Does that scare the "Be-Genies" out of you?
"Frankly, I still think the proper thing to do is to have a large statutory penalty, say $10,000/spam, that anyone can collect in small-claims court."
If we raise the penalty to $10,000,000 per incident, would that be "statutory rape"? Or ineffective, inefficient process of law?
Seriously, whatever is going on with the "spam flag"? Spamming would be less effective if people could filter it out, but then the spammers would get paid less, too, if their payload is universally ditched on detection.
Even with Sender ID, I think eventually "sophisticated" spammers would just adapt like cockroaches, toad, sharks, alligators, and non-hardening feces and just learn to forge or hijack valid email. Maybe they would set up their own "Man in the middle" e-mail servers to strip spam flags from or make "legit" the payload they can intercept.
Pretty soon, spammers tapping into cables or bribing their way into datacenters might be a problem.
Maybe keying/encrypting traffic is the likely best way to deal with this, but, "Where there's a way, there's a will." as a Marine SSGT I once reported to would tell us for motivation.
David Syes
Two questions:
1. What do we do when the spammers raise the stakes (or, raze the steaks) and forge the spam even better? Next, we could have the cops so busy, they'll either ruthlessly and incorrectly charge the innocent, or they'll just walk away from bad press.
2. Why not pay someone to spam the hell out of the agencies charged with reducing spam? (I am assuming that one agency of the government allows it to spur the lazier agencies into action, hehehe.) If spammed to hell, I am sure the FBI would go all-out. And, they might actually enjoy inter-agency cooperation... The police would never again say, "You're out of your jurisdiction..."...
David Syes
I wonder how many of these spammers already headed for Tora Bora...
On second thought, will they be safe? Chased by the US, and run out they those ahead of them.
Hmm, imagine if Bin Laden could start spamming all the ISP's. THEN, they'd be forced to deal with spam once and for all.
I can see it now: "Spammer twirls and drops thong in a depsperate comedic plea to sqaut in dangerous territory...
Sorry, but the BANG "!" key already exists, and comes with a repeat function.
Now a really hairy implementation:
Grow your chest hair, develop your pecs, and apply the two to a pully-based key-pressing system.
If you write "War and Peace", you might end up looking like Popeye...
Cluck your tongue while wearing a dress?
The head-smacking technique would be a real example of "Brute Force Attack" on a computer...
If you're using your eyelids or lips or nose to operate such an equipped machine, then what implement would be used to picks one's nose?
A fixture on the desk? An upright/base-held pen?
One's tongue?
But, it most likely would NOT be GNU/GPL/LGPL or even msGPL.
It is very unlikely that microshaft/microsoft (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' name intentional/perpetual) would EVER be that grand or giving. They would clench-fistedly pound the life from anyone who exposed ms' code as if it were GPL/et al. I would not be surprised if a veritable LOAD of GNU/BSD/LGPL/ and similar code pervades ms (albeit very tidy in appearance at points, but still dodgy/sketchy in others) warez.
Fully exposed, I surmise ms will be a naked wolf. A RICH, naked wolf, but at least defanged.
It's time to threaten or carry out attempts to legally and technologically defang, neuter, spay, declaw, and shave/fleece ms until it is no more a threat than a caged monkey coming down from PCP binge.
The trenchcoats are coming?
The gatescoats are strumming?
The trenchcoats are coming?
The gatescoats are strumming?
Speaking of Revere, this makes me lament that the world IS so economically intertwined at the computer level.
It would be NICE to see some strong, firey international backlash against microsoft, AND against any ms shills in congress who let ms cozily sail by on the USB "security enhancements".
If microsoft (lower-casing/deprecation intentional/perpetual) continues on this track, it will be tantamount to giving the US an upper hand on manufacturing and global security. It would be shameful if the overseas contract manufacturers knuckled under and caused the creation of umpteen billions of ms-only devices to the point that even THEIR own governments are further threatened by the very EXISTENCE of ms.
If someone put a gun to my head and said, "NAME us a big, juicy, media-worthy target in 5 seconds or we'll shoot that lady, that baby, and your leg...", well, there's only ONE company I'd name. And, I'd say, "Don't forget to get their bank account and backup tapes, too."
I wouldn't pull the PHYSICAL trigger, I'd just say make sure that sow is put out of its misery so the rest of us don't get mad-american-tech-cow disease.
The next global threat is not terrorists: it's:
-- an uncontrolled ms or ms-copy-cat
-- dangerous, reckless, bought-off, corrupt politicians, their lobbyists, all or most of whom who don't have any vision more than to grab MORE dollars and MORE power.
-- a portion of the indifferent rich
-- the rest of us SHEEP kept too busy to wake up
David Syes
Then this is more reason why microsoft should perish.
For them to do even ATTEMPT to do this should incite international furor and uproar. I am shocked that to this DAY so many companies continue to have cozy little relationships with microsoft (lower-casing/deprecation intentional/perpetual with me, at least)-- all in the name of money. Apps cost, but so does support. Charge more for support and services, and less or zero for apps. THEN your real fans will stand out and support you, rather than support you out of "hostagery".
Yet, it is increasingly heartening to see SOOO many nations, militaries, governments, businesses and individuals switching to Linux and F/LOSS. This obviously is the signal that microsoft's days are or SHOULD be numbered. (Let's not see WWIII precipitated because a USN or UK combat system based on windoze decides a looming threat became real, launches an overriding first strike, and blows some ship out of the water or plane out of the sky...It's bade ENOUGH that the USN and UK navies gave electrical subsystems control to windoze, and now, for the past few years windoze has been encroaching and infecting systems. Maybe when a ship FAILS to survive because windoze is a let down (and how many DOD projects have NOT been letdowns?) somebody will in due haste revisit F/LOSS (but locked down/encrypted) must become part of or return to command and control systems where ADA and older languages might be too old.)
If a PERSON were doing this kind of thing being done my microsoft, such a person might be called an 'asshole'. Well, companies are RUN by persons, and companies are accorded the status of person, so what does that make microsoft and the specific leaders of it or the key officers and some employees who don't quit that wretch of a company?
It would be a travesty if businesses, governments and individuals which/who just now embracing Linux for freedom, curiosity, or financial reasons (all of these reasons are rightfully obtainable) suddenly find that microsoft and its henchmen/women decree NOONE has the right to escape the microsoft tax and the microsoft ecosystem. With the cash of and increasing lobbying by microsoft, citizen's votes will be further meaningless. Hell, even San Francisco City Library doesn't appear to have free printer access so I was then not able to use my Linux laptop to print something I needed to give a state office. The library employee on the 4th floor told me I had to get a card, reserve a machine, and use microsoft word. I flatly told her I'll use OpenOffice.org, Star Office or Lotus WordPro from my laptop and send it to the printer, or worse, use windoze and right-click the file and print it without so much as seeing ms' word open up...) So much for taxpayer dollars going to proprietary solutions. Other libraries, I know, negligently or haplessly foist the same perils upon their citizens, too.
This is tantamount to declaring WAR, whether upon governments or upon people. What are we supposed to do? Keep legacy windoze boxes lying around, and then be forced to continue supporting gates and his bad business model?
Your business model is FLAWED, gates. Wake up and realize this and change your attitude, your intransigent, stalward, greed-based hegemony and be harmonious with the emerging ecosystem changes. If your company CAN NOT cope, then, as with so many other businesses, then it must DIE.
To paraphrase what someone posted here a day or two ago: Linux is the scratch response to an itch. Obviously, gates and the henchmen/henchwomen, you just don't get it: Your business model is FLAWED, and the suffering, poor, and hungry who DESERVE to ride the train of technology don't need your ficition, your encumberances, and your bad approach to dealing with the fact that you're a sore player. You hoodwinked IBM, you keelhauled non-conforming moms and pops, you practically EXTORTED manufacturers to accept ONLY your o/s, and untold BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars have been SPENT on your proprietary warez, and now, to paraphrase what we Nav
Nothin' like "takin' the wind out of their sails" or sales...
I hear there are people on the east coast saying the same thing, that the damage to Fla is to rectify the theft of votes.
But, if Ivan the Terrible hit/s Louisiana and turned it to LOOuisiana, would that mean this is to wipe out voodoo or something?
Might be interesting if Louisiana and Florida were adjacents states. Imagine combining Voodoo and Spam...
VooDam
When that shit hits your inbox...
'VOODAMN!"
David Syes
Duh... Do you fathom just how low a 747 would have to go to effectively "crop dust" a city?
They'd either crash a la 9/11, or their special fragrances would likely only kill birds, and send THEM crashing into buildings.
(Why just yesterday while eating my Whopper, a bird crashed about 10 feet above me into the window. There was a circular spider web, like a chip but not pronounced. I only saw a bird flying away, but it didn't crash to the ground.)
Wind patterns, humidity, condensation, temperature, brightness and other factors would make pointless this mode of work. Even a news helo would only be effective for a bit until the police helos and DHLS teams arrived to shoot it down.
No, amateur rockets, r/c planes, balloons (heheh, any R/C hot air balloons???) won't be too useful either.
OK, the 747 bit must have been just a bad gag. He/she/it got me...
But, if it is real, then such a plane should be brought down in the name of the public. Or, it should be harpooned with a tracker so we can see just where the hell it goes. Even easier/better, let's hire another nation's satellites to track the next one, if they can respond. If it's leaving a detectable, non-fuel/non-effluent trail, then maybe shoot it down without warning.
Well, then,
Isn't this a case for MORE stateless, diskless machines?
Is it safe to suggest that each workgroup gets a beefy workgroup server, and each employee, say up to 10 per server, get diskless stations? Each company could work out the numbers based on whether a stand-alone Linoxuper, ahem, developer, or CAD specialist gets a dedicated machine, or an accounting, data entry person hangs off the group server.
Then employees with diskless stations could just power off like the old Wyse terminals days. A workgroup server could be supplemented by a root-top or parking lot solar grid, reducing dependency on the local grid.
David Syes
Linxoupers! Linxoupers!! Linxoupers!!!! Linxoupers!!!! Linxoupers!!!!! Linxoupers!!!!!! Linxoupers!!!!!!!
(catches breath...)
Oh, wait, monkeyboy/man meant.. Developers! Developers!! Developers!!!..., hehehe
Well, maybe we'll FINALLY see IBM/Lotus ship some sendable code to Novell? Imagine IBM selling off or dual-licensing some "SmartOpenSuite" and getting IBM AND Novell a slew more customers.
I have things in SmartSuite that, thanks to Word Pro, 1-2-3 and ESPECIALLY Lotus Approach, I simply, utterly, and infuriatingly CAN NOT do in Star Office, nor in OpenOffice.org. Certainly not nearly as easily as I, a non-developer, can do in SmartSuite.
If any of you developers have not seen Lotus Approach, please hook up with your DB friends and help figure a way for IBM to get past the legal morass that seems to be in the way of us having a Dual-License/F/LOSS version of SmartSuite. IBM should do for SmartSuite what OpenOffice is to Sun.
This also could pit IBM in stark constrast to Sun, in light of Sun's arrangements with microscroft (lower-casing/deprecation of mshaft's name intentional/perpetual in my writings...). That is, assuming there are non key, well-placed abettors of microshoft emplaced in IBM (something I think about and fear to be true...)
Thanks in advance, IBM/Lotus. Let the Olympian Gold Code and Bugfests of SmartSuite begin!
David Syes
I don't care if "suits" that drive the influx of and pay for the installation of Linux F/LOSS into infrastructures as long as they fundamentally or nearly 100% respect GNU, GPL, F/LOSS, copyleft, etc.
It behooves them to encourage more people to "scratch an itch" by producing more Linux code.
Eventually, despite the mainstream corps' attempts to sew up or hijack virutally all conceivable "IP" by calling new or innovative spins "mere extensions" of their protected IP, the new adoptees will have to weigh in on Congress (and try to get some PROGress) to modify patent law. It behooves them because they will reduce the cost of doing business for themselves, and collectively, that could be a LOT of votes cast on dumping some fat-ass-cat/bought-off politician and casting doubt on their lobbyists.
Unfortunately, as companies save money by using F/LOSS, they'll probably need fewer engineers, and will be in a position to pay them less, since OSS community developers will probably crank out ever more amounts of code either for passion or for subconscious and over revenge motives to punish a government and tax system that is not keeping up with the fact that technological improvements displace workers, and displaced workers STILL have bills to pay, and bills being paid require MONEY, and money that cannot be LEGALLY obtained will result in theft or counterfieting of cash, or absolute walkaway or abandoment of debts.
Technology is going to UNDO America if lazy-assed corp tycoons and derelict politicians don't reassess the eventual demise or destructiveness of unfettered materialism.
Capitalism requires materialism and exchange of cash. Capitalism requires well-respected, cost-of-living/living-wage paid workers. Workers need cash and personal incentive to part with money, though for the time being, all too many of us too freely part with cash without know we are secure to do so.
The ONLY way to effect change from OUR level is to --en masse-- cancel cable, buy less gas, use the cells less or switch to MetroPCS and incentivize MPCS to spread to other markets, and if we eat more at home, and stop consuming what we don't need at our respective income levels, then ONLY those with disposable cash will consume excessively. Once they're incapable of supporting a run-amok tax-based system with far too many employees and pensions that are not being met adequately, the government and those among the rich who RUN the government/s WILL have to respond. They won't like it either way, but they'll HAVE to respond.
One way the government can start raking in cold, hard cash is to federalize the mortagage industry and skim its profits. There are BILLIONS of dollars there, and since the government already has the plat, lot and other info, all they need to do is hire or federalize certain experts who have competencies the government truly lacks and which the government cannot easily replicate.
Before massive computerization, it MADE sense for the counties and states to turn over the exchange of homes to mortgage pros. But, automobiles can be freely exchanged, and their registration and transfer and special taxation all are government-controlled. Yet, the individual is free to relatively cheaply (due to fewer hands and mouths in on the process) transfer or acquire a vehicle.
The government needs to start competing or acquiring mortgage officers and structures and keeping more of the money it's already forcing homeowners to pay. The new and fundamental difference is that the government --if it can avoid being corrupte yet again/more-- can keep more of this money in the various states, fix state health care, fix public service (police, teachers, firefighters, etc) pay and pension maladies, and reduce the cost of public transportation to the point it is less attractive to use cars except in the trickiest of commute road patterns.
David Syes
Quickly Becoming Public Enemy Number One by Power of the Pen or Keyboard
David Syes
For a LONG time I have been wanting this question answered, unequivocably:
After he and his wife donate funds for construction or computers and software, do they CARE or look the other way if LINUX is put on those boxes or in those buildings?
Is the question moot maybe because they carefully screen, select and hone those environments to make absolutely damned sure that there is next to NO chance of Linux or F/LOSS getting in?
David Syes
What I find to be a problem is file locking on excel sheets. F'ing excel, whenever it encounters an open file in use by another user, it also prevents ie or the file explorer from spritely or expeditiously drilling into the network or local files. This is TRULY annoying
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This is to question all the people with a "boner" for "uptime".
Is it REALLY necessary to care about client machine UPtime? It costs energy to keep a machine running. Maybe it's ok to leave your HOME machine up, if it's a new one with better efficiency then the older monsters of the 90's. But work machines, by the dozens or the hundreds, being left on just wast lots of energy, even if there is available energy on your grid. That energy is generated and fuel is consumed to present it.
That being said, all those windoze boxes with various bots, spyware, and weather bars could be "calling back home", can't they? I just yank my ethernet at home, and at work I leave my windoze box on, but also yank the ethernet. I do the same for my quasi-permitted Linux box. I SHOULD turn them off, but most of the other machines DO get turned off at the end of the day and over the weekend.
I mostly turn my machines off if I won't around for a couple hours, but sometimes, at home, I leave my laptop going if I am watching a movie on the DVD.
David Syes
Was FRAMED!
I saw that on a bumper sticker in Hillsboro/Portland, Oregon in 2002.
"Eve Was Framed"
Yesterday, in SF, I saw two funny bumper stickers:
"Support Our Troops: Bring'em Home ALIVE"
"Defend America, Defeat Bush"
A few months ago, on a vehicle on the freeway, I saw "More Trees, Less Bush"
I wonder how the two contestants would respond to those...
David Syes